The Nazification of the American Media—Concentration of Media Ownership in a Capitalist System

By: Zheng Haoyuan(John)

The Nazification of the American Media

Concentration of Media Ownership in a Capitalist System

As of today, April 1, the death toll from the covid-19 epidemic in the United States has exceeded one million, without a lot of media publicity, without a lot of retweets from human rights advocates, without domination of the charts and hot searches, without sympathy and pity.

When I saw this number, I was silent for a long time, it was not a "small" number like one million dead, but the death of a living person, which happened a whole million times. At the same time there are a million families, crying in the dark corners.

But in the U.S. media and on the Internet, there was putting on a false show of peace and prosperity. The roads and stores are bustling with activity. When asked about the covid-19 epidemic in the U.S., they laugh and say, "It's just a common cold," "It's the elderly who are dying, they're going to die sooner or later," and "It's all God's plan. ".

It's amazing how media brainwashing can make people ignore millions of living lives. This country's gradual march towards a Naziized system has escaped culpability. No one has taken responsibility for those million lives. Just thinking about it makes me so angry I can't speak.

The death of a million people, as if forgotten, becomes a grey footnote to the grand narrative of the "Lighthouse of the World".

If human life becomes a price that can be shed at any time. Then even if the stock market on Wall Street is high and there are more military bases overseas, what does this have to do with the people? Under the strong hegemony of the empire, there is no dignity for the little people at all, just like German civilians were tied to Hitler's chariot and eventually became victims of the empire.

Even those advanced mRNA vaccines, special drugs, but still can not change the fact that one after another specific people die from the disease

A grain of sand of the times, falling on ordinary people is a mountain, this moment a million mountains pressed on the land of the United States of America. I believe that for each American family, the loss of a life is equivalent to a Tarzan, Tarzan covers an area of 426 square kilometers, the million Tarzan is 426 million square kilometers, enough to cover every inch of the United States 45.5 times, so that the United States has become a veritable "country on top of the mountain".

In the face of such a disaster, American politicians and media, however, are more concerned about how well Russians are doing under Putin's government. Their overseas propaganda machine has also avoided talking about the American deaths as if nothing had happened.

There is no doubt that this is a Nazi-style maintenance of power, the establishment of foreign enemies, to divert domestic conflicts, such the United States is no different from Germany under Hitler's rule, although the development, but the loss of soul.

Lighthouse, burn a little slower, please. Please wait a second for your people.

The above mini-essay is for appreciation only, and below I will begin an objective analysis of the Nazification brought about by the concentration of media ownership in the United States.

What is Nazification?

In the traditional sense of Nazification we might understand racism, exclusivity, or genocide, such as the massacre of Native American Indians by the U.S. government.

Trump's election has confirmed that the Nazification of America has officially begun, and the more I think about it lately, the more I think America has gone further and further down the path of Nazification, because now even Biden, the representative of the establishment, is leaning on Trump. Whenever there is a problem in America, the government with its behind-the-scenes media conglomerates will blame it on people of color or other countries.

Trump's election is proof of the Nazification of middle-class white America, and Biden's administration, as a representative of media conglomerate interests, with all its actions regarding the epidemic, confirms that the American media is moving toward Nazification.

Why research media ownership?

In capitalist countries, the media is treated as a public power independent of the legislature, judiciary and executive. Media ownership is simply who owns the media and how much of it. And media concentration is a phenomenon in which more and more individuals and organizations own media, effectively concentrating ownership of multiple organizations under the control of a very few entities.

Then we need to figure out an important question. Who concentrates media ownership? Who owns the country?

Do the American people own America? No, it is the big capitalists who own 98% of the wealth of the entire United States, the 2%. The United States is a capitalist system where everything in society is controlled by the capitalists; the capitalists control the workers, the capitalists control the industries, and the capitalists control the media.

If we trace back upward from the perspective of interests. Biden has Wall Street behind him, so how does Wall Street allow a puppet president who represents their interests to gain control of the government? --US Media

If we think about it intuitively, it is the fact that most of the media is controlled by a few people, so it leads to a convergence of views, which in turn reduces the number of other voices in the market.

So what if we trace it further upwards? It's the concentration of interests. The United States, as the country with the largest gap between rich and poor in the world, 2% of Americans own 98% of the wealth of the entire United States. In other words, big capitalists control more media through mergers and acquisitions and other means, and the United States, where a wide variety of voices originally exist, keeps on expanding its capital in a disorderly manner because there are no policy restrictions - media ownership is concentrated. Eventually most of the media can only make voices that represent the capitalists, and the capitalists control the U.S. government, which means that the mainstream media in the U.S. will only speak for the government, and eventually, there are fewer and fewer voices in the market.

So do we need rules that limit media ownership? The answer is yes. But if a country no longer belongs to its people, even the introduction of more policies won't help. The fundamental question is - to whom does the country belong?